From agent99@sgi.com Fri Jul 12 05:33:48 2002 From: SGI Security Coordinator To: agent99@sgi.com Cc: vulnwatch@vulnwatch.org, bugtraq@securityfocus.com Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: IRIX DNS resolver vulnerability [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- _____________________________________________________________________________ SGI Security Advisory Title: DNS resolver vulnerability Number: 20020701-01-I Date: July 11, 2002 Reference: CERTŪ Advisory CA-2002-19 Reference: CAN-2002-0651 _____________________________________________________________________________ - ----------------------- - --- Issue Specifics --- - ----------------------- It's been reported that the dns resolver libraries in several UNIX variants are vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack. See http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-19.html for additional details. SGI has investigated the issue and has determined that IRIX 6.5 is not vulnerable to this problem. No corrective action is required on IRIX 6.5 systems. This vulnerability has been assigned the following CVE: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-0651 - ------------------------ - --- Acknowledgments ---- - ------------------------ SGI wishes to thank CERT and the users of the Internet Community at large for their assistance in this matter. - ------------------- - --- Information --- - ------------------- SGI Security Advisories can be found at: http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/ SGI Security Patches can be found at: http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/ SGI patches for IRIX can be found at the following patch servers: http://support.sgi.com/irix/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/ SGI freeware updates for IRIX can be found at: http://freeware.sgi.com/ SGI fixes for SGI open sourced code can be found on: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ SGI patches and RPMs for Linux can be found at: http://support.sgi.com/linux/ or http://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgilinux-combined/download/security-fixes/ SGI patches for Windows NT or 2000 can be found at: http://support.sgi.com/nt/ IRIX 5.2-6.4 Recommended/Required Patch Sets can be found at: http://support.sgi.com/irix/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/patchset/ IRIX 6.5 Maintenance Release Streams can be found at: http://support.sgi.com/colls/patches/tools/relstream/index.html IRIX 6.5 Software Update CDs can be obtained from: http://support.sgi.com/irix/swupdates/ The primary SGI anonymous FTP site for security advisories and patches is patches.sgi.com (216.32.174.211). 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